What Are You Having For Dinner

[hashbrown]

Do collard greens taste similar to anything else, as a reference point? I don't think I've ever had any before. I've always had a negative opinion of them, which is nothing more than an unfounded bias since I've never tried them! Just by looking at your picture of them, my brain is coming up with a bitter, Brussels sprouts-like taste in my imagination. But I like Brussels sprouts!

Maybe I did have collard greens before, but my brain is not remembering it if i did. My memory for things like that has always been pitiful.

They don't taste much different than spinach.

 

[Peanut]

Some cornbread and a splash or two from good bottle pepper sauce... yep, pretty much like spinach.

Pepper sauce is a long standing tradition with collards, turnip greens etc. Not to be confused with tabasco or hot sauce, pepper sauce is totally different.

Or made at home, lots of recipes on the net... I make a couple bottles every year.

 

[Haertig]

I'll have to give them a try. I really like spinach. Both raw in salads, and cooked as a side dish.

 

[hashbrown]

For dessert cornbread and milk.

 

[dademoss]

It was a long and emotionally tiring day, I ordered a pizza. The little kitten is home, and her problem seems to be managable with drugs.

 

[Patchouli]

Had a late lunch, new to me: pastrami sammich.
might have leftover chili from yesterday. might not.
@dademoss I'm glad to hear kitten might be on the mend.

 

[SoJer]

For dessert cornbread and milk.

Nice.. We usually do Cornbread with warm Honey-Butter. Pretty durn close to qualifying as "dessert", too..

jd

 

[LadyLocust]

My family is "unique" (I think that is the nice word ) While most folks have black eyed peas and greens for a prosperous new year, my Italian great grandmother evidently only heard the "peas" part so all my life we've had green peas. I was reminded twice today to be sure to eat my peas.
So for super we had Delta Super which includes black eyed peas and greens and for a side, green peas. We should be covered no mater who ya are

 

[snappy1]

It was a long and emotionally tiring day, I ordered a pizza. The little kitten is home, and her problem seems to be managable with drugs.

Phenobarbital? That's what our schnauzer was on

 

[dademoss]

Phenobarbital? That's what our schnauzer was on

Right now the kitten is on "Levetiracetam". an anti-epileptic.

 

[hashbrown]

I made a pan of biscuits this morning , got a little more color in them than normal. I was watching 1883 and almost burned them. My wife loves breakfast sandwiches so we had bacon egg and cheese biscuits.

 

[Amish Heart]

Husband wants baked chicken breasts tonight and kids want pot pie. So I'll make both. I'll make the pot pie with turkey.

 

[Weedygarden]

Do collard greens taste similar to anything else, as a reference point? I don't think I've ever had any before. I've always had a negative opinion of them, which is nothing more than an unfounded bias since I've never tried them! Just by looking at your picture of them, my brain is coming up with a bitter, Brussels sprouts-like taste in my imagination. But I like Brussels sprouts!

Maybe I did have collard greens before, but my brain is not remembering it if i did. My memory for things like that has always been pitiful.

I find the texture of collard greens to be different than spinach. They are much coarser. Maybe a combination of spinach and cabbage, but still not as coarse of a texture. I like collard greens and usually cook them on New Years Day, along with a few other Southern foods such as corn bread, black eyed peas, rice, smothered steak. I fry up bacon to put with collard greens, along with onion and garlic. We can purchase collard greens by the bunch or pre-washed and chopped in bags at our stores. The kind that are in bunches are sandy and need lots of washing, or you will be eating grit when you eat them. The bottom of the sink always has a layer of sand when I wash them.

There were some inner city places where you could get collard greens in Denver. One that I know that is still open is Welton St. Cafe. It is a few block northeast of downtown Denver. It can be a busy place but I have not gone there since COVID. They have lots of great food. If you decide to order fried chicken, it takes almost half an hour, because they cook it from scratch when you order it. https://weltonstreetcafe.com/menu
A couple other places that I have gotten them before are now closed.

They don't taste much different than spinach.

 

[SoJer]

Collard Greens + Rosemary / Garlic / Olive-Oil broiled Lamb shanks, and Lavash, Mmmmm-Mmm!..

jd

 

[DrJenner]

Homemade chili and cornbread

 

[Haertig]

Surf 'n Turf: Grilled Salmon stuffed with crab, New York Strips, wild rice pilaf, salad.

 

[snappy1]

Big salad, Meatball sandwiches.

 

[Patchouli]

Last night I finally steamed the shrimp, Old Bay of course. Today there will be roast beef. Most likely smashed taters. Don’t know what else.

 

[zannej]

Lately I've been having pork chops with butter and garlic salt cooked in the air fryer. Yesterday my brother and I made a big batch of chicken and egg drop soup. He mixed the better than bouillon and I put in an entire pack of boneless skinless chicken thighs and dropped in 5 eggs (all we had left) while the water was boiling. Had some this morning to warm myself up after I cleaned expired food out of the fridge.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

New Year's eve put together my version of 15 bean soup including the black eyed peas,
Ham hock, cooked low and slow in crock pot all night long.
Cornbread, collard greens with some of the ham hock.
Sunday was leftovers day:
15 bean soup(will be canning part of it for days I'm quilting).
Fried chicken, steak fries, creamed peas with baby potatoes.
Today's lunch is pork fried rice.
Supper will be scalloped potatoes, smoky pork chops, green beans with whole garlic cloves and slivered toasted almonds.
Water

 

[zannej]

I looove cornbread. I admit I like the sweet kind. Golden Corral had some that had creamy corn in the middle.
I only liked fresh spinach and hated canned or cooked. Didn't warm to cooked spinach until my brother cooked it with some meat in a pressure cooker.
I never liked collard greens. Can't quite place why. Maybe it was the way they were cooked.

 

[Pearl]

Pork roast in the crock pot with baked potatoes. Gravy, green beans, corn bread!!

 

[hashbrown]

Grazing on New Years leftovers.

 

[Amish Heart]

Leftover roast beef chunks in the crockpot with 3 types of beans. Sweet potatoes, brioche buns, and a green salad.

 

[Haertig]

Lazy today. Grilled some hamburgers, side dish of mac-n-cheese, and ice cream for dessert.

Not exactly what I'd call health food, but only 15-20 minutes to prepare (using the propane grill), very satisfying, and almost zero cleanup afterwards.

 

[Peanut]

Fried chicken and field peas for dinner.

I bought a jumbo pkg of chicken thighs. They were meaty but had lots of extra skin. Tonight I de-boned a thigh then sliced it into strips. I used Zatarain's chicken batter. The meat was moist but some of the extra skin got a bit crispy in the deep fryer.

Maybe next time I'll steam them a few minutes first. I steam a batch of wings first then deep fry them. I don't bread them, comes out really great, meat done and the skin a perfect crispy.

I want to do something different, maybe bake them.

 

[Double R]

I’m doing a pantry challenge. So tonight is homemade chicken noodle soup I made completely from scratch and threw in the freezer.

 

[Terri9630]

Goulash!! With toast and a Dr Pepper.

 

[Bacpacker]

Jambalya

 

[Pearl]

Finished off the last of the beef stew last night! Making cheeseburgers and tater tots tonight!!